"He who smiles last, probably found another meaning"
I've tried almost everything that I wanted to. Am married to a wonderful woman 10 years my junior, so she can stay up with me. She's the most beautiful and understanding person in the world. She has to be to put up with me. Anyone who knows anyone who was married to a Fireman, or a Policeman will understand what we are like. We still think that we know everything and probably will until we pass over for the trip home. I have always been very sucessful at doing just about anything. I'm really big into sports, football, both pro and collage, fishing, hunting, and mountian climbing. All this until I finally wore out and I hurt my back which turned to actually be the defining injury that really slowed me down.
I spent 28 years as a Fireman, a Paramedic, and an Arson Investigator until I was forced to retire. I finally accepted the fact that I had to slow down and I will say that it was the hardest thing I ever had to do. I'm writting a book of so many of the calls that I went on while on the department in Las Vegas, Nevada. Some still bring tears to my eyes, and some still make me laugh out loud. I was on thousands of calls over the 28 years, and as they come to me, I try and relive each one as I remember them. I try and bring the reader along with me and have them live it over with me. Some as a fifeman on my first fire, as a Paramedic as I deliver baby's, or pull someone out of a vehicle that's been distroyed and not expecting to find anyone to be alive inside. Trying to keep the reader along side me as we arrest the bad guy who tried to kill his girlfriend and her children. Trying to let them know how is feels just to finally tell them"oh look, we just happen to have these in your size" as we put the handcuffs on them. Great feeling!
Always try and bring a little smile to everyone I pass in life, and I'm reather sucessful in doing that except for some of the "bad guys"
